"Bakas ng Pagbangon" (Traces of Awakening)

An Aeta community in Zambales is threatened with the entry of large-scale mining projects in their ancestral lands. Not only are they facing the loss of their only source of livelihood, the Aetas also fear that the entry of mining operations in their ancestral lands will soon result in environmental disasters.
This 30-minute documentary weighs in on the issues surrounding the entry of large-scale mining operations as these impact on the basic rights of communities, especially of indigenous communities where most of the mining projects are located.